Animated Gif of a Cicada (Tibicen sp.) Molting. Taken by T. Nathan Mundhenk, in Centerville, Ohio USA July 30 2007. Each frame taken at 1 minute intervals. 30 minute gap in middle while cicada rested. The Cicada takes about 2 hours to complete the process.

Credit: Wikimedian T. Nathan MundhenkEdited by CarolSpears .

# 8 – 19 votes in Round 2;

Category - People and human activities #2 – 129 votes in Round 1;

Destitute pea pickers in California, mother of seven children, age thirty-two, in the 1930s.

Arching fountain of a Pahoehoe approximately 10 m high issuing from the western end of the 0740 vents, a series of spatter cones 170 m long, south of Pu‘u Kahaualea. Episodes 2 and 3 were characterized by spatter and cinder cones, such as Pu‘u Halulu, which was 60 m high by episode 3.

Credit: J.D. GriggsEdited by Mbz1 .

# 12 – 14 votes in Round 2;

Category - Arthropods #4 – 123 votes in Round 1;

Head of a fly (Caliphrodae)

Credit: Wikimedian Richard Bartz.

# 13 – 13 votes in Round 2;

Category - People and human activities #3 – 127 votes in Round 1;

A New York City fireman calls for 10 more rescue workers to make their way into the rubble of the World Trade Center (Text by U.S. Navy)

Credit: Preston Keres .

# 13 – 13 votes in Round 2;

Category - Nature views #2 – 174 votes in Round 1;

Officially known as Mount John Laurie, Yamnuska is the popular name for this mountain in Kananaskis Country west of Calgary, Alberta, Canada.

Credit: Wikimedian Chuck Szmurlo.

# 13 – 13 votes in Round 2;

Category - Nature views #4 – 141 votes in Round 1;

This image of an ice wall and the ocean floor at Explorer's Cover, New Harbor, McMurdo Sound is adjacent to remote-controlled photographic equipment. An underwater camera is connected by cable to onshore facilities, which upload images to the Internet via radio signals.